hey syren,

i am think we can help each other out. I may need some portage to BRC. And I might be able to trade in kind.

email me at [email protected]

Thinking about going to Bman this year (ok dreaming and obsessing more like it!) for my first time! i have read the docs on the Bman site, the FAQ, and i have been reading/searching posts.... but like i said, i'm obsessed! thanks for any help you can provide! 5x5 I have flown the b-man for the last...

i don't know why they did away with the regions, i have asked the admins to bring it back, but no love.

there's a ride board, it has to be more efficient to search that than scroll through this. i know it was dysfunctional for a bit, but it is supposed to be working now.

no problem. its really simple, its more complicated in words than a simple picture. first if you are thinking of making a pvc dome, which if you like building stuff you should consider, here's the basic design i am going for http://www.alternativeengineering.com/DomePage/DomePortfolio/DomePVC/DomePV...

What I thought would work would be to tie rope from top one PVC pole to the next. Like a clothes line. Then tie my Tarp over the "clothes line". One for the roof and one for the side facing the morning sun. hmm. the side panel is going to take a beating in the wind. will you leave it up during the ...

What I thought would work would be to tie rope from top one PVC pole to the next. Like a clothes line. Then tie my Tarp over the "clothes line". One for the roof and one for the side facing the morning sun. hmm. the side panel is going to take a beating in the wind. will you leave it up during the ...

so if i understand this, you want 4 pvc posts, two tarps somehow joined, and then you will secure the posts into the playa? sounds fine. you will need guy wires/lines to hold the posts up, at least two per post, maybe three. i am not clear on how you plan to attach the tarps to the clothes line, but...

it is hard to imagine grommets in sheets holding up to much shear and tension. even if you reinforced them, sheets or anything like them get their strength from not having holes in them. the winds can be really fierce, so fierce people cut holes in their dome coverings to spoil the wind so as not to...

i forget which is the parabola and which is the hyperbola?

i am a acrobatic pilot flying into BM. do you want postive or negative G's? (that's essentially the answer the question above).

....exactly why do you want to throw up all over someone's plane?

bellboy is right. you need a voltage regulator. if you go to www.digikey.com you can find everything, including data and spec sheets on all the parts which usually have a wiring diagram. if you look for voltage regualtors, you can sort by voltage and current. they should cost about 50 cents to a dol...

my first year I brought a video camera and a digital still. i never took the video camera out of the bag, and I was so caught up in the moment, I took very few still pictures, relatively speaking. in fact most of my pictures are when I was board and there was nothing to see or do. I have a lot of du...

from your description it is not clear if the fans are drawing air into the tupperware or blowing it out or just across the vents. either way, computers, especially laptops need air not to over heat. since the air is already so damn hot, they need a lot of air. your basic idea is good: an airtight bo...

I have purchased from www.azsolar.com before, I think their prices are competitive. solar is great for all the obvious reasons, but it is expensive, and if you are running stuff at night, you will need a set of batteries and some calculations for how much when and where. you say you will be running ...

take your own advice bob. give it a rest. and if you need to respond to this post, be my guest -you can have the last say, I'm unsubscribing.

there's dust. Good luck landing. thanks. dust ok, soft squishy, fuzzy playa surface less ok. BTW I didn't mean to sound angry in my last post, I just have been in contact with the airport manager, am voluteering at the POE, read the various drafts of the airport opretating plan, etc. I don't like t...

but the airport is a FAA registered airport that I don't think is part of the city. I believe you're mis-informed here. Verify with tigertiger@burningman.com. She runs the airport. She'll set you straight. Holyhshit. Yes, I asked tiger tiger how the runway was and she said, soft and bumpy, soft lik...

vodka is a food group.

I tried those screw type stakes last year. of the three one went in great, one didn't go in at all, and the third, well is sort of worked. the playa is weird in that some areas are hard like concrete and some are like packed sand. depeneding on where you are, the screws may or may not go in. A 2ft l...

The airport isn't being set up yet. Read the permit. I think the people who set it up have already been out there for initial survery stuff. Though they aren't starting the actual setup until Aug 9th. I am not sure what permit you are talking about, but the airport is a FAA registered airport that ...

i try for a balance between good and easy, when it comes to food.

tastybites from trader joes or www.tastybites.com are awesome, very easy to make (they boil in their own pouch) and tasty. they're warm so they are better suited to dinner than lunch. but when it is so hot, I don't eat much anyway.

sad to say, some people who are setting up the airport told me there was no rain this winter, and as a result, the playa is very very soft, like 2001. I expect there to be mucho dust.

I'm still confused on this aspect, considering previous years where guns were alloved and the current state of the festival now. I think this is covered in your last post, on the back of the ticket, and in more than one place in the survival guide. I'd like to bring juggling knives(not really sharp...

parachutes are the easiest to use for covering, but as far as securing goes, I don't think it is really possible.

some people lock their most valubles in their car, but if its any comfort, I had a camp on the esplanade that had people wandering in and out 24 hours a day and nothing disappeared.

now that we are taling about wire sizes and and their lengths, I would like to suggest that people over-engineer the size of their wires. unless the wire is made for high temp applications, in which case it will say high-temp on it, it is assumed to be used under normal conditions. when the wire is ...

I found rebar in my socal home depot in 1,2,3 ft lengths. I don't think more than 2 ft is necessary. also, bending it into a candycane is cool, but I made a big mistake my first time. I used a propane torch to soften the rebar and a vice to bend it. once bent, I quenched the rebar in water to harden...

you are all mostly correct. in the absence of an external electric field all charge will move to the surface of a conductor. so this means if you charge up something and then take away battery it is all on the surface. however, a DC current will produce a steady flow through the conductor (wire). wh...

of course things could change, but last year there wasn't any cell phone serivce from any provider on the playa.

I know of a couple that wanted to get married at BM. they wanted to ceramony on the playa but then wanted to get an actual marriage license but some town in NV. they posted on the pilot email list aviators-list@burningman.com for someone to fly them to the town for the license and back. many pilots ...

I used gmrs radios and they definitely had less chatter than the FRS radios. since the price of GMRS radios are now basically on par with FRS, there may be more chatter this year. While the CB radio bands are basically worthless because of mindless chatter in the city, maybe out on the playa they wi...